... kind of value statement do we participate in when the line between environmental plunder and gains in personal wealth has become increasingly blurred? In his brilliant The Midas Touch: Money, People and Power from West to East (1989), Anthony Sampson makes explicit linkages between moneymaking and planetary destruction, the vast new fortunes being made in developed countries and ecological destruction. And how do we curtail our addiction to material things, and temper our acquisitiveness with values that ...
